Pro-Global Warming Nursery Rhyme Ads 'banned for overstating risks'

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Two nursery rhyme adverts commissioned by the Government to raise awareness of climate change have been banned for overstating the risks. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that the adverts which were based on the children's poems Jack and Jill and Rub-A-Dub-Dub made exaggerated claims about the threat to Britain from global warming.
In definitely asserting that climate change would cause flooding and drought the adverts went beyond mainstream scientific consensus, the watchdog said.
It noted that predictions about the potential global impact of global warming made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "involved uncertainties" that the adverts failed to reflect.

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  • Here goes, another religion/mind control tool is born, Humans are bad, so bad in fact they can change the weather on a whole planet. Wow, i'm almost starting to believe it myself.

    Ever noticed how it started out as Global warming, but when we started saying that in cold places it got colder, they turned around and said it affects both sides, even tho it was never previously stated, also they changed it to Climate change, lol, pathetic.

  • We need to educate children about climate change. We don't need to indoctrinate them!

  • Did the climate secretary state that we should listen to the advertising standards board for scientific evidence backing human caused climate change? He did didn't he?

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